Words that start with S

Skipping, or jump rope is a game where you swing a rope around yourself and jump over it as it comes under you. Sometimes two people hold the ends of the rope and one or more other people jump over the rope.

A skirt is piece of clothing that has a band around your waist but otherwise is just cloth below the band. Skirts go around both of your legs and not between them. Skirts come in all lengths from very short, knee length like the one in the picture, or even down to your ankles. Usually only women and girls wear skirts.

Skulls are a bony structure that is found inside your head, and in the head of almost all animals. The top part of the skull is called the cranium and the bottom part is called the mandible. Your mandible is more commonly called your jaw, and is the part that moves up and down as you chew or open and close your mouth. The picture is of the top part of a sheep's skull.

Skunks are medium sized animals best known for their ability to make a really bad smell. They can squirt their stinky substance several feet with great accuracy. The smell is bad enough to scare even a bear away, and a person can smell it from a mile away. The smell is almost impossible to wash out of anything it has touched. Skunks sleep during the day and night and come out at dawn and dusk to look for food. Skunks eat insects, mice, small lizards, salamanders, frogs, snakes, birds, moles, and eggs. They also eat berries, roots, leaves, grasses, mushrooms, and nuts. There is some debate about whether skunks are related to weasels or if they are alone in their own family.

Skydiving, also called parachuting or paradropping, is where you jump from a plane and slow your fall as you get closer to the ground by opening your parachute.